An American tragedy
By: by Theodore Dreiser ; with an introduction by Harry Hansen and with illustrations by Reginald Marsh.
Edition: [Special ed.]
Publisher: The Heritage Press
Published: 1954
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 556
Description: This novel tracks the process by which an ordinary young man is capable of committing a ruthless murder, and the further process by which social and political forces come into play after his arrest. In Clyde Griffiths, the impoverished, restless offspring of a family of street preachers, we see a portrait of a man whose circumstances and dreams of self-betterment conspire to pull him toward an act of unforgivable violence.
Notes: First published in 1926.